Red Dog Townsite

Address Restricted, Nevada City, California. County/parish: Nevada.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 14, 2001. NRIS 01000968.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • Brooklyn
  • CA-018-YN-55

From Wikipedia:

Red Dog, California

Red Dog (also known as Brooklyn or Brooklin) was a California gold rush mining town located in the Gold Country in south-central Nevada County, California, United States, 6 mi (9.7 km) northeast of Chicago Park. Red Dog Hill, a mine and campsite, was founded by three men all under the age of 22, and was named by their youngest, a 15-year-old prospector. As mining operations grew, the campsite became a settlement, and then a town with a population of 2,000 residents, before it was eventually abandoned. Still considered important today, Red Dog Townsite is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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